aplacental

1. 1.

   having no placenta

   “monotremes and marsupials are aplacental mammals”

   Antonymsplacental

Questions about aplacental

What does aplacental mean?

aplacental means "having no placenta".

How many syllables are in aplacental?

aplacental has 4 syllables and divides as a-pla-cen-tal under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of aplacental?

The recorded antonyms are placental.

Is aplacental a common word?

aplacental is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.